society for working class south asian diasporas

wsadā (ਵਸਦਾ) archives is a collective for :

a. Collaborative Archiving and Preservation: Of Arts, artifacts, activism, lived experiences, and radical traditions of working-class South Asian diasporas, by working closely with dedicated practitioners worldwide.

b. Easy Accessibility: Making the archives and ongoing creative works accessible (both online and onsite) to the concerned global publics, with the aim of sharing the legacies of class-based organizing.

c. Nurturing a Platform: Promoting local and global public events inspired by the archives, to foster critical awareness, active learning, interdisciplinary research, networking, engagement and publication that encourage dialogue on the histories, struggles, and cultural contributions of working-class South Asian diaspora communities.

d. Shaping Collective Action: Through archival activities, carefully documenting the background stories of struggles and successes within the working-class South Asian diaspora communities to encourage the cocreation and sharing of knowledge and memories across generations and regions, thus fostering opportunities for epistemic justice, collective action, and social transformation.